Cellulite. Most women have it. Sadly, generations of women before us were doomed to a lifetime of bumps and ripples in their thighs, arms, butts and bellies.

But now, our future is tight and bright thanks to contraptions with names like VelaSmooth (www.velasmooth.com) .

Vela looks like distant relative of R2-D2. Her long arm protrudes with a large mouth on the end. At Dr. Marion Shapiro’s West Orange office, (www.mesodoctor.com) Vela rolls and hums all day over bumpy body parts, heating, compressing and smoothing for $250 a ride. The fat melts faster than ice on the summer sidewalk.

Abby the technician deftly operates the large mouthed roller-vacuum… and uses a smaller arm to mow down the little bumps in hard-to-reach spots like underneath the bra strap. One at a time the hard bubbles of fat melt obligingly back into the body.

This is the new “it” machine of body re-contouring; that’s derma-speak for heating the fat beneath the skin with radio frequency waves while tightening the skin. Do this twice a week, for eight weeks and they say you’ll tighten up in all the right places.

Dr. Shapiro spends two days in her New Jersey digs, two days in New York City, and claims she does more VelaSmoothing then nearly anyone else on the East Coast. Some patients combine Vela with Mesotherapy, the fat-melting injections.

There are no side effects from VelaSmoothing, other than to your disposable income. This is not just for people who need to lose weight. Even thin people have cellulite, as part of the aging process. You are just asking your body to take back what it has deposited close to the surface. Kind of like shoveling sand against the tide.